Opinion: Let’s stop talking about policy!
This leadership election is, inevitably, getting a little messy. Why inevitably? Because attempts are being made to create massive policy differences where they simply don’t exist, on matters which are...
View ArticleOpinion: What should the new leader do in his first 100 days? #7
Dear Nick, If you and you staff have the time, I’ve made many comments over the past two months about how the party needs reforming and reorganising. But that’s not the object of today. I want to talk...
View ArticleOpinion: America – a sense of proportion?
The American Primaries are in full swing, and the race is on for the next President of the United States who will be, as the journos will constantly remind us, the most powerful person in the world....
View ArticleOpinion: The polls show there’s all to play for
Whoever said that people tend to believe whichever opinion poll shows their party in the best light certainly hit the nail on the head. When I was younger, Liberals never believed Gallup polls because...
View ArticleMartin Land on Nick’s first 100 days
Dear Nick, Well, not bad. The polls look better and on the doorstep I’ve not had a single person ask me why we got rid of Charles Kennedy. The Bones Commission was a good idea. It was a less of a good...
View ArticleCounty Council Elections 2009: Let’s stop this electoral manipulation now!
I like to think I’m a patient man. When you’ve been a Liberal / Liberal Democrat for 35 years you have to be. But if there is one thing that makes my blood boil, it’s the constant interference of this...
View ArticleOpinion: The devil is in the detail
On the whole, Lib Dems can probably be broadly satisfied with our current performance. The latest poll I’ve seen (from ComRes in the Independent) puts us on 18% – so, despite a significant Tory...
View ArticleOpinion on Nick Clegg’s first anniversary: Martin Land – Has it really been...
Clegg’s first year: Clegg on Clegg | Tall on Clegg Well, it has been a year. I’m sure its felt even longer to you Nick. Take some time over the holidays and quietly reflect. I know you’re busy, so let...
View ArticleOpinion: Once again, the French show a little bit more imagination…
The reduction in VAT from 17.5% to 15% quickly condemned and rightly so, by Vince Cable, as expensive and ineffective is one of this government’s more costly errors. The one year only cut will cost us...
View ArticleOpinion: Democracy, the Rule of Law and New Labour
Back in the 1980s my employer, encouraged by some important orders I’d picked up in what we then called Eastern Europe, asked me to try to build up a distribution network in as many countries as I...
View ArticleCarlos Tevez and Local Government
So Carlos Tevez would like to leave Manchester City. He still has more than three years to run on his incredibly expensive contract, but has informed the press that he has played his last game for Man....
View ArticleOpinion: Let’s stop talking about policy!
This leadership election is, inevitably, getting a little messy. Why inevitably? Because attempts are being made to create massive policy differences where they simply don’t exist, on matters which are...
View ArticleOpinion: What should the new leader do in his first 100 days? #7
Dear Nick, If you and you staff have the time, I’ve made many comments over the past two months about how the party needs reforming and reorganising. But that’s not the object of today. I want to talk...
View ArticleOpinion: America – a sense of proportion?
The American Primaries are in full swing, and the race is on for the next President of the United States who will be, as the journos will constantly remind us, the most powerful person in the world....
View ArticleOpinion: The polls show there’s all to play for
Whoever said that people tend to believe whichever opinion poll shows their party in the best light certainly hit the nail on the head. When I was younger, Liberals never believed Gallup polls because...
View ArticleMartin Land on Nick’s first 100 days
Dear Nick, Well, not bad. The polls look better and on the doorstep I’ve not had a single person ask me why we got rid of Charles Kennedy. The Bones Commission was a good idea. It was a less of a good...
View ArticleCounty Council Elections 2009: Let’s stop this electoral manipulation now!
I like to think I’m a patient man. When you’ve been a Liberal / Liberal Democrat for 35 years you have to be. But if there is one thing that makes my blood boil, it’s the constant interference of this...
View ArticleOpinion: The devil is in the detail
On the whole, Lib Dems can probably be broadly satisfied with our current performance. The latest poll I’ve seen (from ComRes in the Independent) puts us on 18% – so, despite a significant Tory...
View ArticleOpinion on Nick Clegg’s first anniversary: Martin Land – Has it really been...
Clegg’s first year: Clegg on Clegg | Tall on Clegg Well, it has been a year. I’m sure its felt even longer to you Nick. Take some time over the holidays and quietly reflect. I know you’re busy, so let...
View ArticleOpinion: Once again, the French show a little bit more imagination…
The reduction in VAT from 17.5% to 15% quickly condemned and rightly so, by Vince Cable, as expensive and ineffective is one of this government’s more costly errors. The one year only cut will cost us...
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